Hans Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three stages; alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.
What is General Adaptation Syndrome GAS
100
Obesity, high fat diet, physical inactivity, high cholesterol level, high blood pressure, and family history of the disease increase that risk of what.
What is heart disease?
100
The leading cause of death in North America today.
What is coronary heart disease?
100
A system of recoding, amplifying, and feeding back information about subtle body responses.
What is biofeedback?
200
A stressful event such as a math test can be looked at in two ways.
What is a challenge or threat?
200
In Lazurus theory which state of appraisal demonstrates, situation threatening to goals.
What is Primary appraisal?
200
Age, nutrition, genetics, body temperature, and stress all influence this.
What is immune system activity?
200
The highest percentage, 38% of cause of death in 14-24 year olds.
What is car accidents?
200
Name one of four factors in the book, used to cope with stress.
What is personal control, outlook, social support, finding meaning?
300
Event that disrupt or threaten to disrupt our psychological and physical well-being.
What is stress?
300
Canon states that if you combine the sympathetic nervous system with an outpouring of stress hormones, it will result in...
What is fight or flight response?
300
The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes combine to affect our immune system and health.
What is Psychoneuroimmunology?
300
In the 1900's the cancer death rate was at 6%, 100 years later it rose to what percentage.
What is 29%?
300
Attempting to alleviate stress directly - by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor.
What is problem-focused coping?
400
Unpredictable large events such as a war, a famine, or an earthquake in which most people appraise as a threat.
What is a catastrophe?
400
A person who is competitive, and is more likely to have a heart attack because of negative emotions has what type of personality suggested by Friedman and Rosenman?
What is Type A?
400
A type of cell in search and destroy mission, also known as "big eater", which identifies, pursues, and ingests harmful invaders and warn out cells.
What is macrophage?
400
In the 1800's life expectancy was 45 years old. If fortunate enough to reach 50, your life expectancy would be what.
What is 80 years old?
400
The statement, "religiously active people tend to live longer than those who are not religiously active", describes what..
What is faith factor?
500
The outpouring of help after natural disasters, seen especially in young women.
What is tend and befriend?
500
Who studied animals reactions to various stressors, such as electric shock and surgery, helping to make stress a major concept in both psychology and medicine.
What is Hans Selye?
500
Two types of white blood cells. One releases antibodies that fight bacterial infections. The other attacks cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances.
What is Lymphocytes?
500
According to Holmes and his range scales, what is the number one stressful life event.
What is death of a spouse?
500
What strategy in managing stress shows improved immune functioning as well as a high level of activity appearing in the left frontal lobe of the brain which is associated with positive emotions.